This weekend marked the beginning of the growing season at our apartment in Bushwick. I live on the fourth floor, so I grow in window boxes. There are more creative ways to do it, but this is the easiest to manage. I like to grow herbs for infusion into syrups for drinks or dessert, and this year we grew some lettuce, since lettuce is very easy to grow and always handy to use - eat your vegetables. The guy who lives in the apartment across the yard spent last week making the awesome wildstyle graffiti mural. The spray cans clattered when he shook them. It was cool to watch someone painting for their own enjoyment - the guy's apartment...